Posted on 09/07/2011 1:11:27 AM PDT by Cronos
A weekend of religious-themed observances at Washington National Cathedral marking the tenth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks will include a Buddhist nun and an Imam, but not an evangelical Christian, leading the head of the Southern Baptist Convention to ask President Obama to reconsider attending the event.
“A Call to Compassion” will include an interfaith prayer vigil on Sept. 11th. It will feature the dean of the Cathedral, the Bishop of Washington, a rabbi, Buddhist nun and incarnate lama, a Hindu priest, the president of the Islamic Society of North America and a Muslim musician.
However, Southern Baptists, representing the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, were not invited to participate – and neither were leaders from any evangelical Christian organization.
“It’s not surprising,” said Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. “There is a tragic intolerance toward Protestants and particularly toward evangelicals and I wish the president would refuse to speak unless it was more representative.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
The cathedral is the seat of both the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori as of 2011; and the Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, John Bryson Chane as of 2011.
Why would a Moslem care how Christians of any kind are treated?
Leave it to the very gay church of america to be useful idiots for the antichrist crowd.
Frank Page needs to tell the Episcopals that he is a closet gay preparing to come out. He would immediately be invited.
It’s not surprising when heretics embrace heresy. It seems to me the Anti-Christ might very well come from something like the Episcopal Church. Yeah. He’ll break down all those hateful walls that divide the faiths and use all the right sounding words, like peace, love, hope, etc., to bring people together.
Doesn’t sound like any Catholics are invited either!! What the HELL is going on?
True -- the article says . It will feature the dean of the Cathedral, the Bishop of Washington, a rabbi, Buddhist nun and incarnate lama, a Hindu priest, the president of the Islamic Society of North America and a Muslim musician.
I'm going to bet this was a "Reformed Jewish" rabbi who performs gayo marriages. The Buddhist nun -- really? Or just some New-age poser?
For SURE it will be a Reformed Rabbi...probably a lesbian.
The Episcopal church was ONCE as fine as one could get.
I guess that is why the Marxist decided to eviscerate it.
I was senior warden of the oldest Episcopal church in west Tennessee.
This was just prior to the influx of radical leftist and gays
into the church.
Since I left the USA, for good, in 2004 I have had only the Catholic church, central Europe, and now in the Philippines.
Looks to me like they’ve got protestant representation from the host church. If anything the next invitee on the list should be a Catholic priest, not a Baptist minister.
until Jan 2013, unless we are fools to allow Obambi to be re-elected...
True - I think the Catholic Church told them to take a hike or just didn’t bother, the ECUSA is irrelevant in any case.
the Episcopal Church is a stark warning to every other Church out there of the pitfalls of “going liberal”. It’s a death spiral — they haven’t been able to make up their numbers with gay and lesb folks.
Maybe blasater could find out — blasater, some “rabbi” attended this meet and both Ann and I are sure it could only be a Reformed Rabbi, definitely not an Orthodox Rabbi. Would you know?
Isn’t the “Bishop of Washington; Dean of Cathedral” Catholic? I’m not sure, but it sounds Catholic.
“Why would the Christian Southern Baptists want to attend this precursor to a pogrom against Christianity?”
Why wouldn’t they? The SBC has become very “inclusive” recently at the expense of traditional evangelical principles — the reason we’re no longer SBC members.
Well, the message here is obvious. If evangelicals want a seat at the table, they need to start blowing up stuff. Get with the program, people!
No, Episcopalian.
I gave the hint in the title of this article {Episcopal} and a link in the first post to the Episcopal National Cathedral in Washington — they are definitely not Catholic.
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